Jonathan A. Eisen

83.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
324 papers, 24.4k citations indexed

About

Jonathan A. Eisen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan A. Eisen has authored 324 papers receiving a total of 24.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Molecular Biology, 103 papers in Ecology and 77 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan A. Eisen's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (106 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (87 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (69 papers). Jonathan A. Eisen is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (106 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (87 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (69 papers). Jonathan A. Eisen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Jonathan A. Eisen's co-authors include Steven A. Rasmussen, Philip C. Hanawalt, Martin Wu, Srijak Bhatnagar, Aaron E. Darling, Maria C. Mancebo, Steven A. Rasmussen, Anthony Pinto, Jenna Lang and Venkatesan Sundaresan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan A. Eisen

312 papers receiving 23.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Structure, variation, and assembly of the root-associated microbiomes of rice

2015 2.0k citations Jonathan A. Eisen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Influence of Psychiatric Comorbidity on Recovery and Recurrence in Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, and Panic Disorder: A 12-Year Prospective Study

2005 700 citations Jonathan A. Eisen et al. profile →
The Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

1992 652 citations Steven A. Rasmussen, Jonathan A. Eisen profile →
Drivers of bacterial β-diversity depend on spatial scale

2011 640 citations Jonathan A. Eisen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Evolution of the SNF2 family of proteins: subfamilies with distinct sequences and functions

1995 599 citations Jonathan A. Eisen et al. profile →
Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System

2011 559 citations Jenna Lang, Jonathan A. Eisen et al. profile →
Research priorities for harnessing plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture

2017 512 citations Jonathan A. Eisen et al. profile →
PhyloSift: phylogenetic analysis of genomes and metagenomes

2014 442 citations Guillaume Jospin, Jonathan A. Eisen et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan A. Eisen United States	80	9.6k	6.1k	5.7k	4.1k	2.2k	324	24.4k
Per B. Brockhoff Denmark	35	1.2k 0.1×	2.5k 0.4×	867 0.2×	1.8k 0.4×	2.7k 1.2×	109	18.1k
Shaun Purcell United States	53	11.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.2×	1.0k 0.2×	3.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	136	39.1k
Rune Haubo Bojesen Christensen Denmark	21	886 0.1×	2.5k 0.4×	846 0.1×	1.5k 0.4×	2.6k 1.2×	42	16.2k
Richard G. Olmstead United States	78	9.1k 0.9×	721 0.1×	423 0.1×	7.1k 1.7×	1.9k 0.9×	226	20.0k
Robert M. Sapolsky United States	103	5.7k 0.6×	3.1k 0.5×	3.4k 0.6×	305 0.1×	2.8k 1.3×	359	48.1k
Alexandra Kuznetsova Russia	9	754 0.1×	2.5k 0.4×	838 0.1×	1.5k 0.4×	2.5k 1.1×	30	15.3k
Manning Feinleib United States	56	1.9k 0.2×	3.6k 0.6×	682 0.1×	1.3k 0.3×	368 0.2×	144	24.0k
Benjamin M. Neale United States	55	12.4k 1.3×	842 0.1×	1.5k 0.3×	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	165	42.0k
Ramon C. Littell United States	45	1.6k 0.2×	3.4k 0.6×	541 0.1×	5.1k 1.3×	420 0.2×	173	23.6k
Randy J. Nelson United States	86	3.2k 0.3×	2.7k 0.5×	624 0.1×	604 0.1×	2.0k 0.9×	466	26.0k

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Letkiewicz, Allison M., et al.. (2025). Seven-Year Stability of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Symptom Criteria in Individuals with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

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Herbold, Craig W., Charles K. Lee, Chelsea Vickers, et al.. (2024). Nutritional niches of potentially endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium elucidated through metagenomics. Environmental Microbiome. 19(1). 104–104. 1 indexed citations

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Wilbanks, Elizabeth G., Hugo Doré, Meredith Ashby, et al.. (2022). Metagenomic methylation patterns resolve bacterial genomes of unusual size and structural complexity. The ISME Journal. 16(8). 1921–1931. 16 indexed citations

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Ettinger, Cassandra L., Laura Vann, & Jonathan A. Eisen. (2021). Global Diversity and Biogeography of the Zostera marina Mycobiome. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(12). e0279520–e0279520. 18 indexed citations

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Hawes, Ian, Anne D. Jungblut, Tyler Mackey, et al.. (2020). Energetic and Environmental Constraints on the Community Structure of Benthic Microbial Mats in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 96(2). 14 indexed citations

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Ettinger, Cassandra L. & Jonathan A. Eisen. (2020). Fungi, bacteria and oomycota opportunistically isolated from the seagrass, Zostera marina. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0236135–e0236135. 30 indexed citations

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Altamia, Marvin A., J. Reuben Shipway, Jennifer C. Fung, et al.. (2020). Teredinibacter waterburyi sp. nov., a marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacterium isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended description of the genus Teredinibacter. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 70(4). 2388–2394. 11 indexed citations

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Ettinger, Cassandra L., et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insight into the microbial diversity of two thermal pools in Kamchatka, Russia. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 3454–3454. 1 indexed citations

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Villela, Helena, et al.. (2019). Prospecting Microbial Strains for Bioremediation and Probiotics Development for Metaorganism Research and Preservation. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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Villela, Helena, et al.. (2019). Prospecting Microbial Strains for Bioremediation and Probiotics Development for Metaorganism Research and Preservation. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 6 indexed citations

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Ettinger, Cassandra L., et al.. (2019). Metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insight into the microbial diversity of two thermal pools in Kamchatka, Russia. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3059–3059. 64 indexed citations

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Fahimipour, Ashkaan K., Melissa R. Kardish, Jenna Lang, et al.. (2017). Global-Scale Structure of the Eelgrass Microbiome. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 83(12). 113 indexed citations

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Kozyreva, Varvara K., Guillaume Jospin, Alexander L. Greninger, et al.. (2016). Recent Outbreaks of Shigellosis in California Caused by Two Distinct Populations of Shigella sonnei with either Increased Virulence or Fluoroquinolone Resistance. mSphere. 1(6). 36 indexed citations

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Ettinger, Cassandra L., Hanan R. Shehata, David Johnston‐Monje, Manish N. Raizada, & Jonathan A. Eisen. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia gladioli Strain UCD-UG_CHAPALOTE (Phylum Proteobacteria ). Genome Announcements. 3(1). 5 indexed citations

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Ettinger, Cassandra L., Walaa K. Mousa, Manish N. Raizada, & Jonathan A. Eisen. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of Enterobacter sp. Strain UCD-UG_FMILLET (Phylum Proteobacteria).. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Pinto, Anthony & Jonathan A. Eisen. (2012). Personality Features of OCD and Spectrum Conditions. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Dongying, Jason Raymond, Martin Wu, et al.. (2009). Complete Genome Sequence of the Aerobic CO-Oxidizing Thermophile Thermomicrobium roseum. PLoS ONE. 4(1). e4207–e4207. 87 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Eric W., James T. Nelson, David A. Rasko, et al.. (2005). Patellamide A and C biosynthesis by a microcin-like pathway in Prochloron didemni , the cyanobacterial symbiont of Lissoclinum patella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(20). 7315–7320. 434 indexed citations

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Mackiewicz, Dorota, Maria Kowalczuk, S. Cebrat, & Jonathan A. Eisen. (2001). Flip-flop around the origin and terminus of replication in prokaryotic genomes (multiple letter). Genome biology. 2(12). 1004. 7 indexed citations

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Eisen, Jonathan A.. (1990). The Glasnost reader. 2 indexed citations

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